Heddle for looms



P. 'A. WAGNER.

HEDDLE FOR LOOMS. APPUBATION HLED SEPT. a; 192:.

1,41 3,949; Patented p 25, 1922.

HEDDLE Foe LOOMS.

To all whom it may (2097( '67'72 V Be it knownthat I, ;r AUL A. WAGNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement Heddles for Looms, of which the following :is a specification.

* The object of the invention is to provide a light, economically manufactured heddle, having the required strength andfiexibility and adapted to serve eficiently with the warp threads and loom harness; The invention consists in certain novel features of-construction bywhich the above objects are attained, to be hereinafter described and claimed. V

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification and of the invention;

Figure 1 is a' face view of a preferred form of the-improved heddle, on an enlarged scale. i 1 V 1 a 'Figure 2 is a face view=on a still larger scale and shows the construction ofthe warp-eye as in Figure 1, and is partly in section; i va 7 Figure 3 is a transverse section through the warp-eye, taken on the line 3+3 in FigureQ. m r a I Figure dis similar view taken on the line 44, throup'h a portion offa mail. servmg to re nforce such eye. "Figureo 18 2b face view of aportion ot a heddle,'show1ng a modification, on the same scale as Figure 1. r 1 V Flgure 6 1s a face view on the same scale as Figure 2, and shows the construction of the warp-eye shown 'in the preceding'fig'ure.

It'is partly in section.

Figure 7 is a transverse section the line "7-7 in Figure 6.

- "Figure 8 is the line 88 in Figure 6. V F'gure 9 is a face view ofja modified form taken on of mail, on' the same scale asFig'zure 2'.

1 Figure 10 'is'a transverse section taken-on the line 10'1O in Figure i Figure 11 heddle showing another modification. It is on'the same scale as Figure 1. w

The heddles shownare formed'preferably ofstrips ofstl'ong paper suitably treated, folded lengthwise along each margin and cemented with its edges brought together to abut on oneface, thus insuring smoothly Referring. to

show several forms a transverse sect-ionftalren on is aface view of aportion of a time PAUL" A.'WAG1\TER, 0F JERSEY IT New JERSEY,

' Specification of Ietters Patent. Patehtfl Application filed September 8, 1921. Serial No. 499,132. r i

rounded edges for thevheddle, and V .twolayers of paper joined face to face. The

heddle 'eyes and warp-eyes are formed by slitting and spreading the folded strip properintervals, and the eyes are reinforced by suitable, imails introducedbetween the ferred material, cotton, linen, silk orother 'fabricstifi'ened by suitable sizing or cement cessfullyi.

with any suitable waterprooficement,:folded longitudinally upon itself along both mar gins withits edges abutting along the censtrip 'is slittedon such line at proper intertthe drawings, Figuresto i ln'cluslve, l2isast'rip of paper coated:

"and similarly folded, may be-employedrsuctral line. In the'process of manufacture the r i vals, and the'edgesofsuch slits, andthe abut-ting edges of the strip at points "coinciding with the slits, are separated to form eyes.whichare reinforced by mails. The mails at the ends of each' heddle are shown as plates 13 of metal or other wear-resisting material, each having a central slot 14 serving to receive the heddle bars, not shown; anda similar but smaller mail,-not shown, maybe introduced at the midlengith to serve as areinforcement for thewarpeye. V I I i v It is preferable to form the malls for the Warp-eyein separatehalves 15, see Figures 1 and 2, each a plate having one end 16 hollowed into crescent shape, placed in the strip in separated pairs with the curved ends '16 presented toward each other,'.one at each end'of the warp-eye, and smoothly rounded to receive a warp thread between them.

' In-order to increase the tensile strength of the heddle, strands 17 'which'may be threads or cords'are'laid in the bightsof the folds and held by thecement'in the process of manufacture, extending the full length of the l1edd-le,'ahd as an additional" reinforcement,longitudinally extending ti-laments2'7 of silk or other strong fibres are cemented on the surfaces of the strip, as in-.

dicated in Figure 2.

In the form of the invention shown in I Figures 5 to '8'1nclus1ve the marginsof the strip-are folded unequally longitudinally so that-the abutting edges come together ona line at one side of the centre, as at 19, and. the bight of the wider fold is cutaway at 20 to receive a warp-eye formed in a plate shown lying in the bight of the narroy fold.

,The modification shown in Figure 11 1S similar to that just described, but'the offset portion of the plate or mail 25 projects beyond the margin of the heddle through a slit in the bight of the wider fold.

Figures 9 and 10 show a mail formed by a closed. loop or link 26 of wire, flattened as in Figure 10, and adapted to serve as a.

substitute for the separated mails 15 in Figures. 1- and 2 or for the mails 13 for the heddle bars.

The finished and dried heddle thus constructed is light, strong, and sufficiently flexible, and may beexceedingly thin and narrow and 1s easily and cheaply manufactured in continuous lengths by suitable machinery, and subsequently cut to produce the individual heddles shown.

Other modifications than those substituted for the strands 1'7 and 24;, the filaments 18 may be omitted, and the forms and proportions of'the parts varied as conditions of service may require.

1. A heddle composed of layers of fibrous material analogous to paper, secured together face to face and having warp-eyes therein. A

2. A heddle composed of layers of fibrous material analogous to paper, secured together fare to face and having warp-eyes therein, and means embodied in said layers for reinforcing said eyes.

3. A heddle composed of layers of fibrous material analogous to paper,secured together face to face and having warp-eyes therein, and reinforcing strands extending longitudinally of and attached to said layers.

4-. A heddle composed of layers of fibrous material analogous to paper, secured togeth face to face and having warp-eyes therein, means embodied in said layers for reinforcing said eyes, and reinforcing strandsv extending longitudinally of and attached to said layersj heddle composed of two layers of fibrous material analogous to paper, cemented together; face to face and having eyes therein. and reinforcing strands extending longitudinally of'such heddle between said layers and held by such cement. f

A heddle composed ofliwo layers of fibrous material analogous to paper, cemented together and having eyes therein. reinforw shown and described maybe made; fine wires may be heddle between said layers and held by such cement, and reinforcing mails for such eyes held by such cement between said layers.

' 7. A heddle composed of two layers of fibrous material analogous to paper,v cemented together and having eyes therein, and reinforcing mails for such eyes between said layers and held by such cement.

8. A heddle composed of a flexible strip folded upon itself longitudinally and having eyes therein, and mails inclosed by such folcs and reinforcing said eyes.

9. A heddle composed of a flexible strip folded longitudinally along both margins with both edges presented on the'same face, and eyes in such folded strip. p

10. A heddlecomposed of a flexible, strip folded longitudinally along both, margins with both edges presented on thesame face,

same face, eyes in such folded strip, and

longitudinally extending filaments cemented to the outer faces of such foldedstrip.

13. A heddle composed of a flexible strip folded longitudinally along both margins and cemented with both edges presented on the same face, eyes in. such folded strip,

and mails inclosed by such folds and held by such cement. 7

'14. A heddle composed of a flexible strip folded longitudinally along both margins and cemented with both edges presented on the same face, slits in said strip in coincidence with the joint along such edges, and mails inclosed by such folds and serving to reinforce eyes formed by separating the margins of such slits and joint:

15. A heddle composed of a flexible strip folded longitudinally along both marginsand cemented with both edges presented on the same face, a sl1t in said strip in coincidence with thejoint along such edges. a

warp-eye formed by separating the margins of such slit and joint, and a pair ofseparated mails inclosed by such folds and serve ing to reinforce the ends of such eye.

in testimony that I claim the invention above set forth I affix my signature.

PAUL A. NA(:irNER. 

